Next Tuesday, the night of June 24th, The Laughing Dogs will reunite to play their first gig in some 25 years at the Village Underground. Veterans of the late ‘70s music scene here in New York City will undoubtedly remember them as one of the bands who played CBGB and other venues alongside Blondie, The Ramones, Talking Heads and other legendary acts. The Dogs may not have become as famous as those bands, but they were arguably just as good. And they released two major label albums, in 1979 and 1980, the first of which got substantial radio play.

Queens Community House is a non-profit human services organization offering a wide array of programs and services for residents of the borough. A fixture in the borough for the past three decades, the QCH serves around 20,000 per year, ranging from children to senior citizens and everybody in between. Among the various activities to be found are citizenship programs, a small employment program, computer labs at each of the twenty centers, banking services for immigrants, and homelessness prevention programs.

 “We have outstanding service,” states Yvette Dilworth, the Director of Development. “We may not necessarily respond to a single crisis in a person’s life, [but] we have the ability to provide for many crises in a person’s life and help people live their life a little less stressful. We are able to be an outstanding resource for someone, so even if we cannot provide the actual service, we are definitely a resource. We collaborate very well with other organizations strengthen the offerings that are available to people in general. We help people in their day-to-day lives, which sort of gets a little underestimated. It’s important people know that we’re here.”